Americans still settling for status quo

The Oxford English Dictionary chose its two words of the year, one for Britain and the other for America (“Oxford chooses ‘omnishambles’ as word of the year,” Nov. 14).

For Britain, “omnishambles” was selected and is defined as “a situation that has been comprehensively mismanaged, characterized by a string of blunders and miscalculations.” America’s word was some ridiculous acronym related to the Internet.

Who is best suited for omnishambles than the U.S. government? Start with, Operation Fast and Furious, and go forward through Mitt Romney’s campaign and now the David Petraeus scandal. Throw in Benghazi and any California tax proposition, and you have a perfect world of omnishambles.

Four more years of “Obama-omnishambles,” or it could have been “Romney-omnishambles.” Take any city hall meeting up through joint sessions of Congress and omnishambles will be on the agenda. Mismanagement, blunders and miscalculations in government have become the new status quo, and we Americans are settling.